• Craft and Advice

    Writing Spaces

    A Shed of One’s Own: Louise Kennedy on the Blissful Semi-Solitude of Her Backyard Writing Space

    By Louise Kennedy  November 1, 2022
    American History

    How Bearing Witness to Nature Helped Me Delve Into History

    By Teow Lim Goh  November 1, 2022
    Fathers and Sons

    Manuel Muñoz on Trying and Failing to Tell The Story of His Biological Father

    By Manuel Muñoz  November 1, 2022
    First Draft

    “How Do They Explain Themselves to Themselves?” Stacey D’Erasmo on Writing a Financial Crime Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 31, 2022
    Write-minded

    Andrea Bartz on Trusting the Craft You Already Know

    By Write-minded   October 31, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Carl Phillips on the Value of Silence for Writers

    By Carl Phillips  October 28, 2022
    On Memoir

    What I Write in My Journal is Just for Me (It is Not My Memoir)

    By Jeanna Kadlec  October 28, 2022
    Folklore

    When Awe Meets Narrative: On Chasing Local Folklore at the Edge of the Ocean

    By Emily Urquhart  October 28, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Lydia Millet on the Lack of Empathetic Characters in Fiction

    By The Maris Review  October 27, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Billy-Ray Belcourt Discusses His Debut Novel, A Minor Chorus

    By The Virtual Book Channel  October 27, 2022
    Micro

    Ingrid Rojas Contreras on What’s Gained by Losing Language

    By Micro   October 27, 2022
    Writing

    On the Ethics of Writing About Social Issues (While Minimizing Harm)

    By Kavita Das  October 27, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Ross Gay is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  October 27, 2022
    Thresholds

    “Before the Words Became Pages, We Were Eating.” Why Kay Ulanday Barrett’s Best Poems Are About Food

    By Thresholds   October 26, 2022
    Journalism

    Emily Flitter on What She Learned From a Source’s Silence

    By Emily Flitter  October 26, 2022
    Otherppl

    “A Lot of People Can’t Stomach It.” Jonathan Escoffery on the Paradox of Writing About Poverty

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 26, 2022
    Craft

    How My Novel Disappeared—And Why it Came Back

    By Lucy Ferriss  October 26, 2022
    Twitterverse

    Merve Emre: Why Going Viral on Twitter Makes You Non-Human in the Public Sphere

    By Twitterverse   October 25, 2022
    Small Presses

    In Service of the Avant Garde: On the Unlikely Success
    of Siglio Press

    By Elissa Schappell  October 25, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lee Child and Andrew Child on Discipline, Dread, and Writing Late at Night

    By Literary Hub  October 25, 2022
    The Writing Life

    The Pains and Pleasures of Taking Decades to Write a Book

    By Devoney Looser  October 25, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Manuel Muñoz on Writing Through Uncertainty

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 25, 2022
    Addiction

    Seeking a New Story: On Sobriety and the Stories We Tell About Ourselves

    By Sara Martin  October 25, 2022
    Micro

    Erika T. Wurth on Writing Horror as a Former Dorky Kid

    By Micro   October 25, 2022
    Keen On

    When 007 Was a Woman: A WWII Novel About the Real Miss Moneypenny

    By Keen On  October 25, 2022
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